As any basketball fan knows, NBA All-Star Weekend is coming up later this month. We're going to watch The Splash Brothers - Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry - duke it out as opponents in the three-point competition (along with Kyle Korver), see who has the best skills at the rim in the Sprite Slam Dunk Competition, and of course watch the best players the NBA has to offer* go head-to-head in an East vs. West match up. I love All-Star weekend.

To gear up for the big event, the NBA recently launched a standalone app for the All-Star game. It's mostly geared towards the lucky ones who will actually be at the game, but there's also news and other info for the rest of us who have to sit home and watch it on TV. You'll find point-to-point directions to all the All-Star events, venue information, All-Star news, location-based alerts, links to content from the GameTime app, and more under the hood, which seems pretty useful for everyone who's even slightly interested in the game.

As an aside, I just want to say that I'm stoked to see my boy Jimmy Butler in his first All-Star game! He deserves it. The "G" stands for Gets!

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And/or change the way All-Stars are chosen. It's a popularity contest right. Melo, who has been playing like crap on a terrible team, is a starter. But Harden, who's arguably having the best year of his career, is barely a reserve? Pure garbage.

There are so many players who deserve spots this year, but didn't make the cut because it's a fashion show. It takes a lot of value away from what it means to be an All Star in my opinion.

Brian Menius

Durant and Westbrook, who have missed more games than they've played (I know this is true for Durant, and believe it's true for Westbrook as well), got the nod. So yeah, I agree. We made both of them look like scrubs on Saturday, too. I like Durant a lot, but an all-star he is not for the season.

G-Money41

Who would you start over Lowry?? Wade? Kyrie? He's the best player on a team that's second in the conference.

I'm not saying that Lowry is bad - he's definitely a solid player. I just don't think he's an All-Star starter. Reserve? Sure. Just not a starter. Realistically, I'm not sure who I'd put in his place, though.